Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting Eberstadt
Encyclopedia
The Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting is an annual high jump
ing competition which takes place in Eberstadt
, Germany. Established as a men's competition in 1979, it quickly became an important meeting in the high jump calendar, with Jacek Wszoła setting a world record in 1980, and Zhu Jianhua
improving the record further in 1984. A women's contest was added to the programme in 2002.
World record holder Javier Sotomayor
remains the competition's most successful athlete, with a total of five wins achieved over seven years. Vyacheslav Voronin
's and Stefan Holm
's winning jumps in 2001 and 2004, respectively, were the greatest jumps in the world that season. Kajsa Bergqvist
's winning jump in 2003 was also a season's best, and remains among the highest jumps ever completed by a female athlete.
Ariane Friedrich
became the first German woman to win in Eberstadt and Raúl Spank
also made it the first German clean sweep.
have been set at the competition.
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....
ing competition which takes place in Eberstadt
Eberstadt
Eberstadt is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is best known for its winegrowing and its yearly international high jump meeting .-External links:*...
, Germany. Established as a men's competition in 1979, it quickly became an important meeting in the high jump calendar, with Jacek Wszoła setting a world record in 1980, and Zhu Jianhua
Zhu Jianhua
Zhu Jianhua is a retired Chinese high jumper.In Helskinki 1983, he became China's first ever male athlete to win a medal in the history of the IAAF World Championships and, in Los Angeles 1984, became China's first ever male athlete to win a medal in the history of the Olympic Games.In addition to...
improving the record further in 1984. A women's contest was added to the programme in 2002.
World record holder Javier Sotomayor
Javier Sotomayor
Javier Sotomayor Sanabria is a Cuban former track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder. The 1992 Olympic champion, he was the dominant high jumper of the 1990s; he is the only person ever to have cleared 8 feet . He is widely regarded as the...
remains the competition's most successful athlete, with a total of five wins achieved over seven years. Vyacheslav Voronin
Vyacheslav Voronin
Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Voronin is a Russian athlete, who specializes in the high jump.Voronin is a World Champion and European Indoor Champion . His personal best is 2.40 metres, set in London in August 2000. He competed in Athens 2004 and Helsinki 2005, but did not win medals in either...
's and Stefan Holm
Stefan Holm
Stefan Christian Holm is a retired Swedish high jumper. He has won an Olympic gold medal, a silver in the World Championships, and one silver and one bronze medal in the European Championships...
's winning jumps in 2001 and 2004, respectively, were the greatest jumps in the world that season. Kajsa Bergqvist
Kajsa Bergqvist
Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist is a Swedish former high jumper. She won one bronze medal in the Olympic Games, one gold and two bronze medals in the World Championships in Athletics and one gold and one bronze in the European Championships. Her personal outdoor record of 2.06 m, set in Germany in 2003,...
's winning jump in 2003 was also a season's best, and remains among the highest jumps ever completed by a female athlete.
Ariane Friedrich
Ariane Friedrich
Ariane Friedrich, born Tempel is a German high jumper. She won the bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships and represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics...
became the first German woman to win in Eberstadt and Raúl Spank
Raúl Spank
Raúl Roland Spank is a German athlete from Dresden who specialises in the high jump.He competed on the world stage for the first time at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Marrakesh. He finished in seventh in the final, jumping a personal best of 2.11 metres...
also made it the first German clean sweep.
Past winners
Key:| Year | Men's winner | Mark | Women's winner | Mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 2.30 | — | — | |
| 1980 | 2.35 | — | — | |
| 1981 | 2.31 | — | — | |
| 1982 | 2.30 | — | — | |
| 1983 | 2.27 | — | — | |
| 1984 | 2.39 | — | — | |
| 1985 | 2.38 | — | — | |
| 1986 | 2.30 | — | — | |
| 1987 | 2.36 | — | — | |
| 1988 | 2.34 | — | — | |
| 1989 | 2.34 | — | — | |
| 1990 | 2.36 | — | — | |
| 1991 | 2.36 | — | — | |
| 1992 | 2.36 | — | — | |
| 1993 | 2.38 | — | — | |
| 1994 | 2.40 | — | — | |
| 1995 | 2.37 | — | — | |
| 1996 | 2.38 | — | — | |
| 1997 | 2.35 | — | — | |
| 1998 | 2.33 | — | — | |
| 1999 | 2.33 | — | — | |
| 2000 | 2.36 | — | — | |
| 2001 | 2.37 | — | — | |
| 2002 | 2.33 | 2.00 | ||
| 2003 | 2.30 | 2.06 | ||
| 2004 | 2.36 | 2.01 | ||
| 2005 | 2.33 | 1.91 | ||
| 2006 | 2.30 | 1.98 | ||
| 2007 | 2.30 | 1.97 | ||
| 2008 | 2.30 | 2.02 | ||
| 2009 | 2.33 | 2.02 | ||
| 2010 | 2.30 | 2.00 | ||
| 2011 | 2.24 | 1.99 |
Stats
A total of two world records, four European records, one Asian record and seventeen national recordsNational records in athletics
National records in athletics are the marks achieved by a nation's best athlete in a particular athletics event. These records are ratified by the respective national athletics governing body...
have been set at the competition.
External links
- Official website
- Competition summaries from IAAF: 2007, 2008, 2009